Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930 write by Satoru Saito. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that the interactions between the two genres were not marginal occurrences but instead critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks through which to examine and critique the nature and implications of Japan’s literary formations and its modernizing society. Through a series of close readings of literary texts by canonical writers of Japanese literature and detective fiction, including Tsubouchi Shoyo, Natsume Soseki, Shimazaki Toson, Sato Haruo, Kuroiwa Ruiko, and Edogawa Ranpo, Saito explores how the detective story functioned to mediate the tenuous relationships between literature and society as well as between subject and authority that made literary texts significant as political acts. By foregrounding the often implicit and contradictory strategies of literary texts—choice of narrative forms, symbolic mappings, and intertextual evocations among others—this study examines in detail the intricate interactions between detective fiction and the novel that shaped the development of modern Japanese literature.
Allegories of Detective Fiction
Allegories of Detective Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Allegories of Detective Fiction write by Saturo Saito. This book was released on 2005. Allegories of Detective Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories
Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories write by Ellery Queen. This book was released on 1997-05-15. Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction." — Otto Penzler, from Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered—it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer. The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns. The legendary Ellery Queen selected these stories by award-winning Japanese authors from among many thousands published in postwar Japan. Each story features an unusual crime and a complex set of clues investigated by a diverse and colorful cast of characters that includes a calculating inspector, a tenacious journalist, and a determined scientist. The thrilling stories in this volume include: "Perfectly Lovely Ladies" by Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui: Eight women fight the high cost of living using violent means but will they get away with murder? "The Cooperative Defendant" by Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto: After a man confesses to a killing, he retracts his confession and accuses the detectives of coercion. But who is right? "Devil of a Boy" by Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura: A schoolboy may still be very young but he is as sinister as the most hardened of criminals…or is someone else involved? "The Kindly Blackmailer" by Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura: A man involved in a fatal hit-and-run is blackmailed by a mysterious witness. Who is this enigmatic stranger? Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories is a collection that is sure to delight lovers of great detective and crime fiction. The book features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito which places the stories within the context of Japanese society and modern Japanese literature.
Manga, Murder and Mystery
Manga, Murder and Mystery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manga, Murder and Mystery write by Mimi Okabe. This book was released on 2023-06-29. Manga, Murder and Mystery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The book explores how these popular works tackle the crisis of young adult culture within the socioeconomic climate of Japan's 'lost decade' and Heisei era, broadly speaking. Mimi Okabe shows how detective manga materialized in a nation undergoing a state of crisis and how the boy detective emerged as a site of national trauma to address perceived youth problems but in thematically different ways.
The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction write by Stewart King. This book was released on 2022-04-21. The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first systematic account of crime fiction as a global genre, offering unprecedented coverage of distinct traditions across the world.
